Shelving.



' H. HOFPMANN.

SHELVING. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18.1908.

jila) 0 2224104. 4:97am H a Patented Jan. 5,1909.

HENRY I-l OFFMANN, OF ST. LOUISJ'MISSOURL- SHE LVING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 18, 1908. Serial No. 439,116.

Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HOFFMANN, a

citizen of the 'United States, residing at St. Louis,'Missouri,. haveinvented certain. new

'. description.

and useful Improvements in Shelving, of which the following is a clear,fu1l,.and exact My mvention relates to shelving, and its ob- -ject is tosim lifyand cheape'n the construction of the sa e, and also to make thedifferout parts thereof detachable and to increase the capacity of thesameas may'berequired,

It is also my object Ito provide an'arrange' ment whereliyshelires ofmany. different styles andadapteli to hold various articles ofmerchandise may be 'supported= For example, with my improvement shelvessuch as plain boardsforunhreakable articles or trays with a back,twdsides and an open front for breakable articles or flat trays with lowprojecting guards around the edge formiscellasu ported on shelvingconstruction.

' tron. m My inven't'l ,n will be defined in the claim.

n the embodiment of my invention shown in the drawings I have only shownone referred form ofiwtray, which is constructed he an opentopboigshaving the front side detach- 'able,but -1t is obvious thatother forms of trays mayalso be used as desired without departing fromspirit or scope'of my inven- In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview .of the entire frame; Fig. 21s a sectlon through the frontstandards of said frame and with a portion' of the fr nt -wall of thetrays broken away; and'Fig. 3 is a erspective view of one endportion ofa shel hanger. My shelf frame preferably consists of aseries of uprightstandards 1, said standards having formed therein several groups ofapertures 4. at different heights, the, apertures of'each group being ofthe same height forsu orting op ositely arranged shelf hangere Each'paii' of standards "is adapted to sup ort a shelf hangerwhichiscOnstructed as s own, and is composed ofa longitudinal angle bar 2having projectingbosses 3 near the adjacent ends of. the same forinsertion in the apertures of said standards. The

them in said apertures, and in the.- resent embodiment I have shown saidbosses ormed into an ogee-shaped curve fo r this purpose. By thisconstruction it is obvious that when these bosses 3 are inserted in theapertures 4 of the tubular standards, the o 'eeshaped curve retains themtherein. At t e rear end of each angle-bar is a turned-up ortion '7shown in Fig. 3, which forms a bac stop for the trays as they are pushedupon the hangers. The tray consists of an ordinary receptacle having anopen to for thepurpose of receiving bottles or'ot erfsimilar articles ofbreakable nature used in tray quanbosses 3 are provided with -s tities.The front of each tray is made removable and forthis purpose has at oneend an ordinary bolt, and at the bottom and other end projecting dowelsto fit in sockets prepared for the same in the.bottom and side of thereceptacle. neous articles, may all be interchangeably My shelf frame isassembled as follows. An angle bar is first attached topairs ofoppositely facing standards. In order to attach the angle bar to saidstandards it is obvious that the angle bar thereof is held upwardlyuntil the ogee portion has been inserted in the a er'ture of thestandards, and then the ang e'portion is permitted to drop and restagainst the sides of the standards, the ogee portions retaining'themthereon. When several angle bars have thus been attached to thestandards, the trays or shelves are ushed in to rest upon the horigcntalportions of oppositely arranged angle bars 'to brlng up against the rearbackstop 7 of each angle bar' It is obvious-that the capacity of-myframe may be easily increased by adding more angle bars and shelves.

What I claim is:

In 'a shelving construction in combination, a series of'verticalstandards having groups of apertures therein, at difierentheights theapertures of each group being of the same height, pairs of oppositelyarranged shelf hangers mounted on said standards at equal heights, eachhanger composed of 1011 gitudinal angle bars having a horizontal portionfor supporting shelves, and avertical portion throughout its entirelength proof said hangers being turned 111p vertically vided withvertically projecting ogee shaped to form a back stop for said she ves.10 rods adapted to be inserted in the apertures Signed at the city ofSt. Louis,.eMo., this of said supporting standards and retained 15th dayof June, 1,908. 7 5 therein for supporting said hangers, .and a HENRYHOFFMANN.

series of shelves adapted to rest u on the Witnesses: v I horizontalportions of said shelf angers, JOHN ALFRED VEAzEY, one end of saidhorizontal portions of each RICHARD T. SHUnz.

